Wright now shilling for a Billy Graham wannabe?

[stevejrogers]

From Phil Mushnick in today's post.

]July 17, 2006 -- TO LIFT a line from The Doors, strange days have found us. So it's Saturday afternoon and we're watching the Mets on Ch. 11. They're playing the Cubs in Wrigley, when, during a commercial break, David Wright, in his Mets uniform and standing in Shea, pops up to tell us: "Hi, I'm David Wright. I invite you to the 'Salvation Miracles Revival Crusade' with Dr. Jaerock Lee, at Madison Square Garden, July 27, 28 and 29." And then a graphic, giving the dates and printed in Spanish, appears. Next we see footage of a man holding two crutches aloft, as if they were suddenly rendered needless by the Rev. Dr. Lee's astonishing healing powers. And then a similarly miraculous story is told as we see an elderly woman walking across a stage, her abandoned wheelchair in the background. Sorry, boys and girls, while we mean no offense toward anyone's spirituality and religious devotion - Wright's included - that was the weirdest player/team-connected TV ad we'd ever seen within a telecast of a big league game. And are Mets telecasts and Mets dressed in their Mets uniforms now available to help deliver religious come-ons of any and all kinds? But above and beyond all that, why is Wright telling us about the Rev. Dr. Lee? If this holy man can spring people from wheelchairs, shouldn't Wright, at the very least, be telling Victor Zambrano?

Errmmm, not sure what to tell ya here. I'd imagine its Wright's personal thing not a Met sponsered spot.

[soupcan]

Disheartening.

[Frayed Knot]

]I'd imagine its Wright's personal thing not a Met sponsered spot.

Except that if it's purely a personal thing then I'm not sure he coulld do it in his uniform.
MLB controls the rights to those unis & logos & such and I was under the impression that they have to approve any ads that take place with them. That's why you sometimes see a player in some generic baseball uni if he's plugging something - say a video game - that's NOT the brand MLB endorses.

I didn't see the ad but the whole thing sounds kinda odd.
I guess the folks at MLB figured it was a local ad for a local event and didn't see any harm in one of the players providing some pr - and probably didn't check on the content.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If he's in uniform, the Mets had to have approved it.

Or at least, they should have approved it. There have been cases of players appearing in commercials in uniform without authorization, but they get slapped when they do that. (Ed Kranepool in an ad endorsing Al D'Amato comes to mind.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't think Billy Graham's ever been a faith healer.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: I don't think Billy Graham's ever been a faith healer.

Fair point, and he's never been considered a snake oil, "bad hair & dimples" cultish salesman either, I was quickly going with the first name off the top of my head, hence the "wannabe" label

[MFS62]

Didn't one of the Yankees (Andy Petite?) have a commercial for Bibles?
Was it sponsored by a particular church? (MOrmon?) I forget if he was in uniform or announced himself as a member of the Yankees.

Later

[Elster88]

[Guest old original jb]

Googling Jaerock Lee produced some interesting results.
I'm not posting a link, because I have no idea about the source of the web page, but I'll share my favorite tidbit:

At least one critic claims that the Reverend Lee teaches that Adam and Eve used to use earth as a "vacation spot", and on their vacations, built the pyramids.

So, if I have this straight, the Garden of Eden is Paradise, but even people in Paradise need a vacation. So you go to this resort called "earth" where you engage in major construction projects. And then when you are "bad" and get expelled from Paradise, they send you back to the resort as punishment?

Let's hope that Jaerock is not being consulted on any baseball decisions.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hope David doesn't believe this stuff. Maybe his agent isn't good at selecting endorsements.

I'm getting the feeling that within a year or two we'll be seeing David Wright jumping up and down on Oprah's couch.

I want David Wright to be our Cal Ripken, not our Tom Cruise.

[nymr83]

MFS62 wrote: Didn't one of the Yankees (Andy Petite?) have a commercial for Bibles? Was it sponsored by a particular church? (MOrmon?) I forget if he was in uniform or announced himself as a member of the Yankees. Later

i don't remember the commercial but t had to be the Mormon church, none of the other denominations advertise the bible on TV that i've seen. hey its yours free if you call now! i do need a new door-stop....

[Vic Sage]

And there i was, already about to annoint Mr. Wright as the Mets' Mr. Right, and it turns out he's shilling for a faith healer.

Ugh.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Has anyone ever seen this commercial?

I'd like to watch it myself before passing any judgment.

[Benjamin Grimm]

What Norrin said.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And there I was, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Somebody hurry up and pick up that damned other shoe.

[Willets Point]

No one is seeing the upside of this! We need Wright to get the faith healer to work on Pedro's hip.

[Benjamin Grimm]

What kind of a name is Jaerock anyway?

I think if Fred and Barney went to a Mets game last year, Jae Rock Seo would have been pitching.

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: No one is seeing the upside of this! We need Wright to get the faith healer to work on Pedro's hip.

And Delgado's strikeoutitis.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

http://www.wcdnindia.org/miracle/jaerocklee/jaerocklee.htm

] To live, I'd drink even the liquid of feces! Modern medical science was not able to heal me, so I used all sorts of folk remedies. I ate whatever was said to be good for my health. I even changed my name and invited a sorceress to perform an exorcism. But to make things worse, I got the rheumatic arthritis and I had to hide myself. In this terrible situation, I heard that the liquid of feces was good for recovering my health. Although its stench was unbearable, I drank it earnestly. But it was all in vain and my condition got so worse that others had to help me urinate and defecate. I didn't know about God's providence and tried many things in human way, only to see no hopeful result for the future. My wife frequently ran away from home and my beloved mother wished I would die. Nobody can imagine how sorrowful and painful it was!

If I started drinking the liquid of feces, I think my wife would run away from home too, and I wouldn't blame her.

It's surprising that his condition got worse. If he started feeling better after he stopped drinking the liquid of feces, it can only be because of the healing powers of Dr. Jae Rock Seo.

I have to wonder, is Liquid of Feces available over the counter at your local CVS? Or is it a prescription thing? (I can imagine the commericals: "Ask your doctor if Liquid of Feces is right for you.")

[Benjamin Grimm]

And maybe we've uncovered the cause of Pedro's recent food poisoning.

[MFS62]

Thank you for posting that right before lunch.
I think it was once available without prescription. They called it New Coke.

Later

[Lundy]

]Has anyone ever seen this commercial? I'd like to watch it myself before passing any judgment.

I saw it, and it seemed like David Wright was reading the copy off cue cards--definitely not something that looked like a personal endorsement, rather something like a bad concoction from the PR department, like Frayed Knot alluded to earlier in this thread.

[Guest Hillbilly]

old original jb wrote: Googling Jaerock Lee produced some interesting results. I'm not posting a link, because I have no idea about the source of the web page, but I'll share my favorite tidbit: At least one critic claims that the Reverend Lee teaches that Adam and Eve used to use earth as a "vacation spot", and on their vacations, built the pyramids. So, if I have this straight, the Garden of Eden is Paradise, but even people in Paradise need a vacation. So you go to this resort called "earth" where you engage in major construction projects. And then when you are "bad" and get expelled from Paradise, they send you back to the resort as punishment? Let's hope that Jaerock is not being consulted on any baseball decisions.

This actually makes more sense to me than most of the bullshit in the Bible.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

For some reason that reminded me of a page is saw where they try to prove that there are dinosaurs in the bible. It had a great picture.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This whole thing is bizarre and disturbing.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Vitamin Water has dropped Wright as its spokesman. He now shills for Shit Water.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

FWIW, this doesn't seem to be one of the beneficiaries of David's foundation

[stevejrogers]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: FWIW, this doesn't seem to be one of the beneficiaries of David's foundation

Heh, so pretty much proves the point that he just read the cue cards, this isn't a Steve Carlton situation

[stevejrogers]

FWIW according to NY Times' Jack Curry on WFAN Mariano Rivera actually cut Sunday's press gathering short because he was late to mass! Would be shocked if Rivera was attached to this guy.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

SteveJRogers wrote: FWIW

Nothing.